Jonaki Ray studied Chemistry and Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and is now a technical editor based in India. She is perpetually striving for a balance between the world of science, which she studied and works in, and the world of poetry, which she has come to love. Her poetry was shortlisted for the 2016 Oxford Brookes University International Poetry Contest and longlisted for the 2016 RL Poetry Award. Her work has been published in India, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Singapore in journals like Silver Birch Press, Coldnoon: Travel Poetics, The Four Quarters Magazine, Kitaab, and The Lake, among others. In Spring 2016, she was a Writer in Residence at Joya:AiR, an inter-disciplinary residency program in Spain.

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This is such a relevant and beautifully crafted poem! The way you have presented patriarchal mindset of rural India indicates that you have observed things first hand. The other situation that you have presented is equally relevant.